Molinia Caerulea Ssp. Arundinacea

However the broad leaves and increased vigor of plants distinguished as M. Previous Product Product 149 From 215 Next Product.

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It is truly the autumn color that makes this a focal point.

Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea. It forms mounds of bright green slender foliage which take on yellowbrown tints in autumn before dying down. Arundinacea Skyracer is an amazing architectural selection of Tall Moor Grass. Skyracer was selected by the late plantsman Kurt Bluemel and packs.

Excel Download PDF Download. Deer resistant juglone tolerant and excellent for coastal plantings as they are salt and salt spray tolerant. In the wild the two subspecies grow together.

Molinia caerulea is a very variable species owing to a combination of phenotypic plasticity and genecological variation. Download our availability and order form for pricing whats in stock and future availability. Flowers change to golden-tan seeds as they age.

Molinia arundinacea Skyracer Moor Grass. Arundinacea Sky Racer moe-LIN-ee-ah sir-EW-lee-ah subspecies ah-run-din-AY-see-ah Skyracer grows to about 3 feet wide and 2 to 3 feet wide and in late summer to early fall sends up delicate panicles to a height of 6 or 7 feet. Genus Molinia are deciduous perennial grasses tufted in habit with flat linear leaves and erect stems bearing open flowering panicles in summer Details M.

Arundinacea tend to be 15m 5 tall or more. 200. Tall moor grass Molinia caerulea subsp.

Moor Grasses are favorites in the Dutch Wave and New Perennial planting styles. Arundinacea is a tussocky deciduous grass with arching linear leaves that turn yellow in autumn and fine sprays of small purplish flowers in summer Plant range W Europe. We hold the National Plant Collection of Molinia.

Grows best in a moist well-drained acidic soil in full sun to partial shade. Caerulea are found growing on drier edges of the same bogs and moors. Visitors to the nursery can see most of the plants in the Molinia Collection growing in the display garden adjacent to our sales area.

Arundinacea Bergfreund G-0489 Each 975 AVAILABLE SPRING 2021 Invite this friend of the mountain into your garden bed and it will quickly become your friend as well. Tall with an open growth habit it exhibits arching thread-like leaves topped in summer with a haze of delicate flower spikes that sway gracefully in the slightest breeze. Molinia fall into two groups - the tall varieties Molinia caerulea ssparundinacea which produce flower spikes up to two metres tall and the shorter ones Molinia caerulea ssp.

In summer huge upright green panicles erupt from the clump which develop airy seedheads that last well in to autumn. 1 800 203-8590 or Contact Us. Arundinacea Skyracer G-0031 Each 975 Donning a stately sculptural presence and a dancers grace especially when roused by summer breezes this first-class Kurt Bluemel selection grows narrowly upright.

Conversely plants designated as M. Caerulea tend to be less than 12m 4 tall. Both forms make wonderful ornamental grasses for our gardens.

Arundinacea Skyracer Molinia caerulea ssp. Long purple flower spikes appear in July giving the grass an airy appearance. They are happy in most soils preferring those that are moist in some sun to emulate conditions in the wild.

Please login to access Wish List. Arundinacea Purple Moor Grass is an exceptionally lovely and graceful ornamental grass. See-through delicate plumes on upright and arching stems energetically leap skybound from a green 2- ft.

Molinia is slow to mature and could take 3-5 years to reach full size. Additional Notes about Tall Moor Grass. Flowering begins in June reaching from 6-7 tall.

Family Poaceae Genus Molinia are deciduous perennial grasses tufted in habit with flat linear leaves and erect stems bearing open flowering panicles in summer Details Karl Foerster is a tufted deciduous grass forming a clump of arching linear leaves that turn yellow in autumn with narrow panicles of purple flowers in summer. Arundinacea Wind Play Windspiel Forms a tufted upright clump of slightly arching medium green leaves turning yellow in the fall. It dons a sculptural statesmanlike presence and a dancers grace especially when set in motion by summer breezes this distinctive Kurt Bluemel selection grows narrowly upright.

Arundinacea is native to the British Isles. Leaves turn vibrant yellow in Autumn and the flowers add winter structure and interest during the dark days of winter. Arundinacea is due to unusually moist fertile soils.

Morphological plasticity is expressed as variation in overall size in the length and width of leaves and especially in the length width and colour of the panicles Hubbard 1968. Arundinacea Moor Grass altissima Print Article Sheet. Open panicles rise well above the foliage.

You can trim back the dead foliage in the fall for a tidier appearance or leave it until spring to improve winter interest and provide root protection. Bearing the name of the legendary German nurseryman Karl Foerster this Molinias gossamerlike inflorescences first emerge suffused in purply raisin shades and by fall gilded highlights set the lofty blooms aglow further heightening the butter yellow hues of the stalks. Caerulea which grow to about one metre.

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